Would they could sell us experience, though at diamond prices, but then no one would use the article second-hand! ~ Honore de Balzac Quotes
When a woman laughs an experienced man will know how much it will cost him. ~ Indian Proverbs
What is all knowledge too but recorded experience? ~ Thomas Carlyle
Two things control men’s nature; instinct and experience. ~ Blaise Pascal
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. ~ Greek Proverbs
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. ~ Doug Larson
The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer-bought. ~ Hosea Ballou
That experience which does not make us better makes us worse. ~ Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn
Proverbs are the children of experience. ~ Sierra Leonean Proverbs
Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us. ~ Bernadin de St. Pierre
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. ~ William Ellery Channing
Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end. ~ Walter Pater
It is the nature of experience to come to us only when too late for use. ~ Madame de Chateauneuf Rieiux
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. ~ Harold S. Geneen
If age and experience came at birth, We would have neither youth nor mirth. ~ Russian Proverbs
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits. ~ Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price. ~ Ivan Panin
Experience makes us wise. ~ William Hazlitt
Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around. ~ Terry McCormick
Experience is the teacher of fools. ~ Titus Livy
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows. ~ Louis Charles Alfred de Musset
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde Quotes
Experience is the extract of suffering. ~ Sir Arthur Helps
Experience is retrospect knowledge. ~ Hosea Ballou
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. ~ Aldous Huxley
Experience is largely non-transferable. ~ Author Unknown
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. ~ Josh Billings
Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. ~ James Baldwin
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do anything about it. ~ Jimmy Connors
Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. ~ Roger Ascham
Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes
All is but lip wisdom which wants experience. ~ Sir Philip Sidney
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
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